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A state group that advocates and promotes charter schools may be weighing in with legal help for the defrocked board operating Downsville Charter School.

One day after speaking candidly about the ongoing battle between the Union Parish School Board and the group operating Downsville Charter School, Caroline Roemer — executive director of the Louisiana Public Charter School Association — responded to questions by saying her group “has engaged with attorneys so (I) probably can’t go into any further detail.”

While the 15th annual North Central Louisiana Arts Council Holiday Arts Tour is wrapping up for the year, the past three days have brought out area residents who seek to make a contribution to the local culture economy.

“I am an artist, and I enjoy looking at other artists’ works and try to support them as much as I can. I specifically went shopping for this event tonight,” said resident Nan Cole, who was shop hopping during the tour’s opening night in conjunction with the city of Ruston’s Main Street Open House. “I’m trying to get a little Christmas shopping done, and I love untraditional, hand-crafted gifts.”

Rick Simmons, George K. Anding Endowed Professor of English and Director of the Louisiana Tech University Honors Program, has just published his fifth book, “Carolina Beach Music from the 60s to the 80s: The New Wave.”

Published by the History Press (London & Charleston), this book picks up where Simmons’ last book, “Carolina Beach Music: The Classic Years,” left off, covering more classic beach music as well as the newer songs that were the beginning of a new wave of beach music in the late 1970s and early 1980s.